CJCE’s latest virtual issue (VI) is now live: Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering VI II. This VI features articles published in CJCE’s Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering Special Series. It is Part II of the Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering Virtual Issue, which was published in 2019.
Within the preface for this VI, the Guest Editor of the ongoing Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering Special Series Gregory S. Patience outlines the inspiration for the Experimental Methods special series and identifies topics for future additions to this series:
“The ‘Points of Significance’ articles authored by Martin Krzywinski and Naomi Altman were the inspiration for the ‘Experimental methods in chemical engineering’ tutorial series.[1,2] Their work summarized dozens of statistical concepts, like significance, P values and t-tests,[3] error bars,[4] association, correlation, and causation,[5] model selection and overfitting,[6] principal component analysis,[7] and power and sample size,[8] in a page or two.”
“The bibliometric map identifies several subjects that are predominantly in the domain of chemical engineering and merit dedicated tutorial reviews: electro chemistry (conductivity, Li and supercapacitance, electrode, electrocatalysis, and cathode). Other techniques that are under consideration to complete the review include: temperature, bioreactors, electrospinning, humidity, temperature programmed oxidation/desorption, and density (physical methods); atomic absorption spectroscopy and inductively coupled plasma (spectroscopic methods); and mixing, control, finite element method, and statistics.”
Within this issue, you will find 28 mini reviews on a wide range of topics, each providing an exploration of a topic commonly used for chemical engineering research. For example, in “Experimental methods in chemical engineering: Monte Carlo”, an open access Issue Highlight from the October 2024 issue, authors Ergys Pahija, Soonho Hwangbo, Thomas Saulnier-Bellemare, and Gregory S. Patience provide an excellent overview of Monte Carlo (MC) methods, its history, theory, and applications, and look specifically at two applications within chemical engineering: emissions and energy forecasting.
In “Experimental methods in chemical engineering: X-ray fluorescence—XRF”, the June 2024 issue’s Editor’s Choice article, authors Mario Ferreiro González, Nooshin Saadatkhah, and Gregory S. Patience provide a thorough discussion of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and its diverse applications and look at the research themes of articles being published that mention XRF.
In “Experimental methods in chemical engineering: Karl Fischer titration”, an Issue Highlight article from the September 2024 issue, authors Paula Rivera-Quintero, Gregory S. Patience, Nicolas A. Patience, Daria C. Boffito, Xavier Banquy, and Dalma Schieppati provide a thorough review of the Karl Fischer titration method and its diverse applications and provide an overview of research themes in articles being published that mention this technique.
Articles within this virtual issue are open access or have been set as free-to-read for a limited time. Be sure to check out this issue to explore additions to the Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering Special Series from 2020 to 2025.